One of the professors being on retreat and Francis Neale being absent Grassi has been very busy, having scarcely time to read Bruté's letter of last week. As the boys have gone on a steamboat down the Potomac he has some free time. He thinks what Bruté has written on the Jesuits for the Analytic Magazine will not produce the effect he intends. The manuscript refers to a charge made under St. Francis Xavier's generalship and in Bavaria. grassi relates the story and indicates that the manuscript making the charge should be ridiculed. Grassi relates how another Jesuit handled a plan to publish tales about the Jesuits. He thinks that treating these attacks as jokes, of which he gives and example, is a better argument than trying to expose the services of the Jesuits to humanity. Grassi quotes also some pertinent passages from the Edinburgh Review. He regrets that he has lost several other quotations of this kind. He is sorry that he cannot quote the passage from Robertson on the Jesuits. He mentions other books on the subject. He relates an episode of Euler, the President of the St. Petersburg academy, about the Jesuits., P.S. Grassi does not know how Father Stephen Dubuisson is going on with his Bedford waters. He expected him home every day. He hopes that DeClery has arrived and that he found his bedding at the stage office. He asks if Bruté received his letter with money for Father Felix d' Andreis. Archbishop Leonard Neale enjoys good health but his health is in decline. Father Fenwick has Mr. Dallas's work in favor of the Jesuits and the letters of Father Plowden. :: II-3-n A.L.S. 4pp. 4to., 5